In Belgium on such intersections it's always the traffic coming from the right that has right of way. There is almost never an obligation to make a full stop at such intersections.
The stop sign is used on intersections where visibility is limited and one (pair of) road(s) is considered less important than the other. Jo 2012/11/23 John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> > Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I (would) do this mostly for consistency. I have to admit I never HAD to >> do it, most stop signs in Belgium are used for their intended purpose: give >> priority to the main road, not inhibit all traffic arriving at an >> intersection. >> >> A node on the way approaching a main road is unambiguous enough. One one >> the intersection itself is harder to 'interpret'. >> >> Concerning traffic lights it would depend on the size of the >> intersection. Traffic lights tend to have an influence on all ways arriving >> at the intersection, whereas stop signs make traffic on some ways >> 'inferior' to the ways of the main road. So it's not the same situation. >> >> It also depends on the quality of the Bing imagery. It has now become >> possible to indicate where highway=give_way applies for many places in >> Europe. >> >> Polyglot >> >> >> 2012/11/21 Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> >> >>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > What I never do anymore is to tag the node of the crossing with it. So >>> even >>> > if all 4 roads have a stop sign, I'd create for nodes for them on all >>> > approaches. >>> >>> Are you doing the same for traffic_signals ? if not, why simply not >>> accept that such signals on the cross node implies that all >>> intersecting ways are concerned ? >>> >>> Pieren >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > In the USA, all-way stop signs are used at intersections where all of the > roads in question have equal priority, and the expected traffic volume is > small enough that you won't have a large backlog of traffic waiting to go > through. From what you are saying, would Belgium always give one of the > roads the right-of-way, so that its traffic does not have to stop, or would > it always have an electric traffic signal at such an intersection, > regardless of how small the expected traffic volume is? > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not > to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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